Singularity installation

Firstly, the user needs to install singularity software using the following steps as described in “https://sylabs.io/guides/3.5/user-guide/quick_start.html”, please note some installation requires the user to have sudo rule, if you do not have, please ask your system administrator to install them for you

Install the required packages

• You need to use these two commands to install the dependency packages:

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install -y \
  build-essential \
  libssl-dev \
  uuid-dev \
  libgpgme11-dev \
  squashfs-tools \
  libseccomp-dev \
  wget \
  pkg-config \
  git \
  cryptsetup
  

Install go

• This is used by the singularity container

  export VERSION=1.13 OS=linux ARCH=amd64
  wget https://dl.google.com/go/go$VERSION.$OS-$ARCH.tar.gz
  sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzvf go$VERSION.$OS-$ARCH.tar.gz
  rm go$VERSION.$OS-$ARCH.tar.gz
  sudo ln -s /usr/local/go/bin/go /usr/local/bin/go
  

• You can test your download by typing

  go h
  

Download Singularity from a release

• The following command should be used to download the code:

  export VERSION=3.5.2 && wget  https://github.com/sylabs/singularity/releases/download/v${VERSION}/singularity-${VERSION}.tar.gz
  tar -xzf singularity-${VERSION}.tar.gz
  cd singularity
  

Compile the Singularity source code

• The code needs to be compiled using the follwing command:

./mconfig
make -C builddir
sudo make -C builddir install

• You can test the installation by typing

  singularity h